Tower Comics

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Tower Comics was an American comic book publishing company best known for The T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents by Wally Wood.

The comics were published by Harry Shorten and edited by Wally Wood and Samm Schwartz. Tower Comics was part of Tower Books, a now long defunct paperback book publisher.

Tower Comics set themselves apart by publishing 25-cent, 64 page comics, during a time of 12-cents, 32 page comics. Their main lines was THUNDER Agents, a strange combination of secret agents and superheroes, and Tippy Teen, an Archie-clone (artist Samm Schwartz had worked at Archie Comics for years).

The company lasted from about 1965 to 1969. John Carbonaro purchased the rights to the THUNDER Agents and associated characters sometime in the 80s and published them in his JC Comics line.

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Dynamo (4 issues, a THUNDER Agents spin-off)
Fight the Enemy (3 issues, war title)
NoMan (2 issues, a THUNDER Agents spin-off)
Teen-in (4 issues, teen comics)
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (20 issues)
Tippy Teen (27 issues, teen comics)
Tippy's Friends Go-go and Animal (15 issues, teen comics)
UNDERSEA Agent (6 issues, minimal ties with THUNDER Agents)

Paperback collections

Dynamo, Man of High Camp (Tower Book 42-660) 1966 (reprints THUNDER Agents #1)
NoMan, the Invisible THUNDER Agent (Tower Book 42-672) 1966 (reprints NoMan stories from THUNDER Agents #2-5)
Menthor, the THUNDER Agent with the Super Helmet (Tower Book 42-674) 1966 (reprints Menthor stories from THUNDER Agents #2-5)
THE TERRIFIC TRIO (Tower Book 42-687) 1966 (reprints stories THUNDER Agents #2,3,6)